Product Description: The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality. The encyclopedia is divided into two volumes: Topics and Cultures...read more

Product Description: Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice...read more

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Product Description: Without ethnography, cross-cultural comparison would not be possible. But without cross-cultural comparison, we would know nothing of what may be universal or variable across human cultures, or why variation exists. Cross-Cultural Research Methods is an introductory teaching tool that shows students and potential researchers how to describe, compare, and analyze patterns that occur in different cultures, that is, how to form and test anthropological, sociological, psychological, medical, or political hypotheses about cultural variation...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Cultural Anthropology, provides both a comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology.  It helps the reader understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way.   This new edition also highlights migration and immigration in the context of globalization.

Product Description: Explains how and why human cultures vary so greatly across space and time   Human Culture: Highlights of Cultural Anthropology Plus NEW MyAnthroLab for Cultural Anthropology -- Access Card Package 3/e  helps students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive overview of all of human history from two million years ago to the historic period. Prepared under the auspices and with the support of the Human Relations Area Files and an internationally distinguished advisory board and edited by Peter N...read more

Product Description: Presents A Brief Empirical Introduction to the Four Fields of Anthropology   Human Evolution and Culture presents the highlights of the popular Anthropology, 14th edition by the same author team. This brief introduction presents readers with the four fields of anthropology, helping them to understand humans and all their variety...read more

Product Description: Explains how and why human cultures vary so greatly across space and time   Cultural Anthropology Plus NEW MyAnthroLab for Cultural Anthropology -- Access Card Package 14/e  helps students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way...read more

Presents A Brief Empirical Introduction to the Four Fields of Anthropology   Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology Plus NEW MyAnthroLab for Anthropology -- Access Card Package 8/e  presents the highlights of the popular Anthropology, 14th edition by the same author team. This brief introduction presents readers with the four fields of anthropology, helping them to understand humans and all their variety. Students will gain a deeper understanding of 1) anthropology, 2) the biological and cultural evolution of humans, 3) cultural variation, and 4) how anthropology can be applied beyond academia. The new 8th edition includes expanded focus on environmental issues. Additionally, the size of the book (19 chapters) makes it useful for quarter courses, as well as for courses that encourage a lot of supplemental reading.   Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience- for you and your students. It:       •Engaging Pedagogically-Driven Design: Learning Objectives in each chapter correspond to chapter summary materials          •A Clear Understanding of humans: Readers will learn the major variations in human kinship, economic, political, and religious systems and why it is significant.          •Focus on Contemporary issues: Students will understand contemporary social problems and how anthropology might be used to address them.   0134114132 / 9780134114132 Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology Plus NEW MyAnthroLab for Anthropology -- Access Card Package   Package consists of 0205990991 / 9780205990993 NEW MyAnthroLab for Anthropology -- Valuepack Access Card 0205999328 / 9780205999323 Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology

Product Description: REVEL™ for Cultural Anthropology helps students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way. It provides both a comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology. REVEL for the fourteenth edition offers an expanded and updated focus on environmental issues...read more